Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 06:31:12 01/28/04
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On January 27, 2004 at 21:57:46, Mike S. wrote: >On January 27, 2004 at 10:28:08, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Did I used the word "could be" and the two matches is just for us to get an idea >>of how strong List and Aristarch are. Now you are fee to match them against all >>the Free Winboard Engines at longer time control, and provide us a more >>scientific evidence :-) > >Let's not forget about Ruffian 1.0.x... > >The BfF ratings are based on very many games equivalent to 10+ m/g on 1500 MHz: > >http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/bff-liste.htm > >There, Ruffian 1.0.5 is currently listed as best free UCI rated 2690, ranking >just behind King 3.12c (but that was before the recent public release of List >5.12 which is rated 2706). It's a bit unclear with Aristarch, the 4.21 version >of it ranks better than some 4.3x versions. There are List 5.04, but also SOS.3 >f.Arena, SmarThink 0.17 and Crafty 19.08 SE in between. > >I'd say #1 and #2 free engines are List 5.12 and Ruffian 1.0 (in unknown order >since their margins of error overlap), and for #3 there are several candidates >:-) > I'm currently having a small tourney with Aristarch 4.37, List 512, El Chinito 3.25 and Ruffian 1.0.5. so far Ruffian is in last place just behind Aristarch 4.37. List 512 is leading and El Chinito 3.25 is in second place. The match is taking place with my Athlon 1.2 GHz 256 MB with 48 MB for each engines and all the engines are using the Fritz8.ctg. and Fritz8 GUI. Ktulu and Delfi are also great engines to consider but I'm only considering these four at the moment. Pichard >These are most probably the strongest *free* engines for all protocols, although >IIRC there was a Fritz 6 version on the magazine CD of a german computergames >magazine (not chess specific). But that wasn't really free in the common sense. > >OTOH, I've read that currently there's a Fritz 8 (!) version in german shops for >only 4.99 Euros! So, the freeware and commercial sector are giving each other a >hard time :-)) > >Regards, >M.Scheidl
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